Methods & Proposal for Metadata Guiding Principles for Scholarly Communications

Abstract

This article describes an international community-based effort to create metadata guiding principles for adopting and using richer metadata and advancing its application in scholarly communications. These principles can facilitate the dissemination, discoverability and use/reuse of many types of research and scholarly outputs. While much work remains to be done, these principles serve as a starting point for the evolution of processes that span communities including publishers, researchers, scholars, authors and other creators, librarians, curators, custodians, and consumers of scholarly works. These aspirational Metadata 2020 Principles are designed to encompass the needs of our entire community while ensuring thoughtful, purposeful, and reusable metadata resources. They provide a framework for all of us to be good metadata citizens. They also provide a foundation for considering related work from Metadata 2020 and must be interpreted within the legal and practical context in which we operate. They are intended to guide the broadest possible cross-section of our community in improving research communications, publishing, and discoverability.

Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data

“…Ensure that metadata schema and practices are in alignment with 60 Metadata 2020 principles, 60 thereby enabling greater interoperability and reuse of higher quality metadata.…”

Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: Ways to minimize inappropriate citation and use of retracted data

“…l Update metadata in applicable indexing systems, leveraging previously developed technical guidance [47]. l Ensure that metadata schema and practices are in alignment with Metadata 2020 principles [81], thereby enabling greater interoperability and reuse of higher quality metadata.…”

Metadata: The accelerant we need

“…A literature review [21,22] nicely summarizes the roles and challenges within each community and may be considered in the context of a great variety of existing best practices [23] that were collected near the start of the initiative, along with use cases gathered over the past few years. Cross-community personas [24] were developed from interviews, surveys and community group discussions to help illustrate and validate the resources provided, particularly the Metadata 2020 Principles [4] and Best Practices [25]. During the 3 years of the Metadata 2020 initiative, the lessons learned have been integrated into the outputs that have been vetted by the community through direct participation in their development and feedback on draft versions.…”

“…Since 2017, the Metadata 2020 initiative has been elevating the discourse to highlight the universal challenge our communities face in improving metadata quality. A cross-community collaborative effort encompassing the work of a wide variety of stakeholders, the initiative recently published recommendations for Principles and Best Practices [4]. Metadata need to be "Compatible, Complete, Credible, and Curated" Crises like Deepwater Horizon and COVID-19 bring the need for efficient access to trustworthy, usable knowledge and data into sharp focus.…”